email address

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    creativelittleknits · Member ·

    I’m adding my email to my site and in the preview it’s all on one line but when I preview it the .com returns to the next line. It will only go all on one line if I reduce the size but that reduces everything on the page which I don’t want. Any advice please?

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  • kokkieh · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    This is on your contact page at https://creativelittleknits.ie/contact/, correct?

    Making the text for the entire page smaller is the only way to do this without CSS – with CSS on our premium plan you can just make the link itself smaller.

    I’d argue you don’t need an email address there at all, though – you already have a contact form, and any messages submitted via that form will be logged in your site’s dashboard and forwarded to your email, and it comes with the added benefit of WordPress.com’s built-in spam protection.

    It also hides your email address from web crawlers: publishing your email address like this exposes it to crawlers – automated programs that search websites for visible contact information that are used by spammers, and hackers, to harvest contact info they can then use to spam you/attempt to hack your accounts using that email.

    If you do want to offer a direct email option as well, I’d recommend you obscure the email address behind anchor text. In other words, instead of the link showing your email address itself, it just shows the text “Email me”, which when clicked then creates a new email. It won’t fool all web crawlers, but it will offer some measure of protection.

    To create a link like that, add a regular paragraph block instead of the contact info block you have at the moment. Type the text you want visible, e.g. Email me, then select that text with your mouse.

    Click the link icon in the block toolbar, and where it asks for a URL, type mailto:emailaddress, and press Enter.

    Once you update the page, clicking that text should result in the email program on your computer being opened.

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